Friday, December 05, 2014

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein"

While developing a philosophical understanding of emotion it has come to mind that research over the years has provided a model consideration for understanding the valence affect. This valence affect with regard to the Decision making process that from a cognitive standpoint is inclusive of logical and emotive forces.
This process was a long one in which I thought to place ourselves, in terms of a self evident point of expression, so as to suggest, the next question rests on a Inductive realization with which the history has thus far been explained.

So the totality of this entry is an examination with regard to emotion and its necessity in the logic analysis approach to such a question. To what is self evident. To what is decisive.

The next step is always important. So I had to demonstrate the current historical examination for what has been done with regard to emotion so that I could reveal some of the work that I had done in the years past.

This work then is a stepping point toward a new and entertaining thought about what the next technologies might reveal about our emotive and logical state of being as we make our decisions with all that we had gained with in experience.
So the next step is a series of posts that will reflect this attempt by me to objectify what has thought to been totally subjective and without regard.

"No aspect of our mental life is more important to the quality and meaning of our existence than emotions. They are what make life worth living, or sometimes ending. So it is not surprising that most of the great classical philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Descartes, Hobbes, Hume—had recognizable theories of emotion, conceived as responses to certain sorts of events of concern to a subject, triggering bodily changes and typically motivating characteristic behavior. What is surprising is that in much of the twentieth-century philosophers of mind and psychologists tended to neglect them—perhaps because the sheer variety of phenomena covered by the word “emotion” and its closest neighbors tends to discourage tidy theory. In recent years, however, emotions have once again become the focus of vigorous interest in philosophy, as well as in other branches of cognitive science. In view of the proliferation of increasingly fruitful exchanges between researchers of different stripes, it is no longer useful to speak of the philosophy of emotion in isolation from the approaches of other disciplines, particularly psychology, neurology, evolutionary biology, and even economics. While it is quite impossible to do justice to those approaches here, some sidelong glances in their direction will aim to suggest their philosophical importance. de Sousa, Ronald, "Emotion", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),"

"If the view that emotions are a kind of perception can be sustained, then the connection between emotion and cognition will have been secured. But there is yet another way of establishing this connection, compatible with the perceptual model. This is to draw attention to the role of emotions as providing the framework for cognitions of the more conventional kind. de Sousa (1987) and Amélie Rorty (1980) propose this sort of account, according to which emotions are not so much perceptions as they are ways of seeing—species of determinate patterns of salience among objects of attention, lines of inquiry, and inferential strategies (see also Roberts 2003).de Sousa, Ronald, "Emotion", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Emotion"

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"Under the Heading of #6. Perceptual Theories-A crucial mandate of cognitivist theories is to avert the charge that emotions are merely “subjective.” But propositional attitudes are not the only cognitive states. A more basic feature of cognition is that is has a “mind-to-world direction of fit.” The expression is meant to sum up the contrast between cognition and the conative orientation, in which success is defined in terms of the opposite, world-to-mind, direction of fit (Searle 1983). We will or desire what does not yet exist, and deem ourselves successful if the world is brought into line with the mind's plan

The exploration of questions raised by these characteristics is a thriving ongoing collaborative project in the theory of emotions, in which philosophy will continue both to inform and to draw on a wide range of philosophical expertise as well as the parallel explorations of other branches of cognitive science.
Conclusion: Adequacy Conditions on Philosophical Theories of Emotion -de Sousa, Ronald, "Emotion", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),Emotion"

"Thus, secondary reflection is one important aspect of our access to the self. It is the properly philosophical mode of reflection because, in Marcel's view, philosophy must return to concrete situations if it is to merit the name “philosophy.” These difficult reflections are “properly philosophical” insofar as they lead to a more truthful, more intimate communication with both myself and with any other person whom these reflections include (Marcel 1951a, pp. 79–80). Secondary reflection, which recoups the unity of experience, points the way toward a fuller understanding of the participation alluded to in examples of the mysterious.Primary and Secondary Reflection-Treanor, Brian, "Gabriel (-Honoré) Marcel", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming Marcel Gabriele."

"Early decision theorists recognized the importance of emotion and discussed it in detail (e.g., Bentham, 1789; Jevons, 1871; Smith, 1759). Nevertheless, emotions did not make it into decision research because they were seen as intrinsically unstable and unpredictable, partly because they could not be measured objectively. Today, most problems with unpredictability and immeasurability of emotions have been solved. Emotions can be reliably measured in various verbal (e.g., via rating scales) and non-verbal ways (e.g., via FACS or facial EMG’s; Larsen & Fredrickson, 1999; Parrott, & Hertel, 1999). More- over, the impact of emotion on behavior is actually sim- pler and more systematic than previously thought. Emo- tions behave lawfully (Frijda, 1988, 2006), and their con- sequences are clear, stable and quite predictable. This has opened up opportunities for an integrative account of the different emotional influences on decision making. We present such an account in this article.On emotion specificity in decision making: Why feeling is for doing-(PDF) Marcel Zeelenberg∗1, Rob M. A. Nelissen1, Seger M. Breugelmans2, & Rik Pieters3 1 Department of Social Psychology and TIBER, Tilburg University
2 Department of Developmental, Clinical and Cross-cultural Psychology, Tilburg University 3 Department of Marketing and TIBER, Tilburg University"

"We can now restate our opening questions. Is the special felt qualitative tendency in valence, as it is structurally represented in
descriptive theories, an intrinsic feature of emotion experience as
such; that is, something that exists prior to the self-reports that
describe it? Or is it instead created and structured by features of
second-order awareness, such as these self- reports? The argument here
is that valence is created by attention in sec- ond-order awareness.
There is nothing scientifically objective or precise that we can say
about valence apart from its elaboration in second-order awareness.
Second-order awareness does not create the underlying phenomenology of
emotion experience, but it does shape and articulate what exactly it
means to us. This conclusion would appear to threaten the scientific
foundation of descriptive theories of affect, because it undermines the
objectivity of the phenomenon they claim to study. It also contradicts
the driving assumption of several dominant neuroscientific theories of
valence, according to which valence is an intrinsic objective property
of affective experience.Emotion Experience and the Indeterminacy of Valenceby LOUIS C. CHARLAND"

" The sort of mental processes described as cognitive are largely
influenced by research which has successfully used this paradigm in the
past, likely starting with Thomas Aquinas, who divided the study of
behavior into two broad categories: cognitive (how we know the world),
and affective (how we understand the world via feelings and
emotions)[disputed ].[citation needed] Consequently, this description
tends to apply to processes such as memory, association, concept
formation, pattern recognition, language, attention, perception, action,
problem solving and mental imagery.[14][15] Traditionally, emotion was
not thought of as a cognitive process. This division is now regarded as
largely artificial, and much research is currently being undertaken to
examine the cognitive psychology of emotion; research also includes
one's awareness of one's own strategies and methods of cognition called
metacognition and includes metamemory.

Research into cognition is usually scientific and quantitative, or
involves creating models to describe or explain certain behaviors. Cognition"

***

The part of the body in which the soul directly exercises its
functions is not the heart at all, or the whole of the brain. It is
rather the innermost part of the brain, which is a certain very small
gland situated in the middle of the brain's substance and suspended
above the passage through which the spirits in the brain's anterior
cavities communicate with those in its posterior cavities. The slightest
movements on the part of this gland may alter very greatly the course
of these spirits, and conversely any change, however slight, taking
place in the course of the spirits may do much to change the movements
of the gland” (AT XI:351, CSM I:340). The Passions of the Soul "

"The thymus was known to the ancient Greeks, and its name comes from
the Greek word θυμός (thumos), meaning "anger",[22] or "heart, soul,
desire, life", possibly because of its location in the chest, near where
emotions are subjectively felt; or else the name comes from the herb
thyme (also in Greek θύμος or θυμάρι), which became the name for a
"warty excrescence", possibly due to its resemblance to a bunch of thymeThymus -"

"The
James–Lange theory has remained influential. Its main contribution is
the emphasis it places on the embodiment of emotions, especially the
argument that changes in the bodily concomitants of emotions can alter
their experienced intensity. Most contemporary neuroscientists would
endorse a modified James–Lange view in which bodily feedback modulates
the experience of emotion." (p. 583)James–Lange theory -"

"Phillip
Bard contributed to the theory with his work on animals. Bard found
that sensory, motor, and physiological information all had to pass
through the diencephalon (particularly the thalamus), before being
subjected to any further processing. Therefore, Cannon also argued that
it was not anatomically possible for sensory events to trigger a
physiological response prior to triggering conscious awareness and
emotional stimuli had to trigger both physiological and experiential
aspects of emotion simultaneously.[33]Cannon–Bard theory -"

"Maranon
found that most of these patients felt something but in the absence of
an actual emotion-evoking stimulus, the patients were unable to
interpret their physiological arousal as an experienced emotion.
Schachter did agree that physiological reactions played a big role in
emotions. He suggested that physiological reactions contributed to
emotional experience by facilitating a focused cognitive appraisal of a
given physiologically arousing event and that this appraisal was what
defined the subjective emotional experience. Emotions were thus a result
of two-stage process: general physiological arousal, and experience of
emotion.Two-factor theory -"

" Skin conductance response in regular subjects differs when given fair and unfair offers, respectively. However, psychopaths have been shown to have no difference in skin conductance between fair and unfair offers.[2]
This may indicate that the use of lie detectors relying on skin
conductivity gives psychopaths an advantage that non-psychopaths do not
have in criminal investigations.-"

"Whether scientific method is at all suited for the study of the
subjective aspect of emotion, feelings, is a question for philosophy of
science and epistemology. In practise, the use of self-report (i.e.
questionnaires) has been widely adopted by researchers. Additionally,
web-based research is being used to conduct large-scale studies on the
components of happiness for example. Alongside this researchers also use
fMRI, EEG and physiological measures of skin conductance, muscle
tension and hormone secretion. This hybrid approach should allow
researchers to gradually pinpoint the affective phenomenon. There are
also a few commercial systems available that claim to measure emotions,
for instance using automated video analysis (nViso) or skin conductance
(Affectiva).Affective Science -"

" Founded in 2011, Nymi is a spinoff from the University of Toronto,
focused on delivering unique and usable
digital identity solutions. The company's first product is the
Nymi Band, a wearable technology device that delivers Persistent
Identity
experiences by using the wearer's unique electric cardiac
signature as a biometric. Nymi is proudly based in Toronto and is
privately-funded
by Ignition Partners, Relay Ventures, MasterCard and Salesforce
Ventures.http://www.nymi.com/news/now-nymi/"

"Affective
computing is the study and development of systems and devices that can
recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects. It is an
interdisciplinary field spanning computer science, psychology, and
cognitive science.[1] While the origins of the field may be traced as
far back as to early philosophical enquiries into emotion,[2] the more
modern branch of computer science originated with Rosalind Picard's 1995
paper[3] on affective computing.[4][5] A motivation for the research is
the ability to simulate empathy. The machine should interpret the
emotional state of humans and adapt its behaviour to them, giving an
appropriate response for those emotions.Affective Computing -"

The advances made and put forth here paint a different picture then the
one assumed here in regard to the development of emotions that work
toward identifying innate characteristics of the person? As well, as
factors that are now discernible physiologically with regard to the
economics of barter and trade. This observation goes back to principle
inherent in wireless communication(as fractal antennas) and the work of
Benoit Mandelbrot who brought forward through recognition, its
utilization of fractals and development by Seth Cohen.

***

" In view of the proliferation of increasingly fruitful exchanges between
researchers of different stripes, it is no longer useful to speak of the
philosophy of emotion in isolation from the approaches of other
disciplines, particularly psychology, neurology, evolutionary biology,
and even economics.

Twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy and psychology tended to
incorporate emotions into other, better understood mental categories.
Under the influence of a “tough-minded” ideology committed to
behaviorism, it seemed easier to look for adequate theories of action or
will, as well as theories of belief or knowledge, than to construct
adequate theories of emotion. Economic models of rational decision and
agency inspired by Bayesian theory are essentially assimilative models,
viewing emotion either as a species of belief, or as a species of
desire.

That enviably resilient Bayesian model has been cracked, in the eyes of
many philosophers, by such refractory phenomena as akrasia or “weakness
of will.” In cases of akrasia, traditional descriptive rationality seems
to be violated, insofar as the “strongest” desire does not win, even
when paired with the appropriate belief (Davidson 1980). Emotion is
ready to pick up the slack. Recent work, often drawing support from the
burgeoning study of the emotional brain, has recognised that while
emotions typically involve both cognitive and conative states, they are
distinct from both, if only in being significantly more complex. Emotion- de Sousa, Ronald, "Emotion", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)"

"The subjective theory of value is a theory of value which advances
the idea that the value of a good is not determined by any inherent
property of the good, nor by the amount of labor required to produce the
good, but instead value is determined by the importance an acting
individual places on a good for the achievement of their desired ends-

In the philosophy of decision theory, Bayesian inference is closely
related to discussions of subjective probability, often called "Bayesian
probability". Bayesian probability provides a rational method for
updating beliefs.

Bayesian epistemology is an epistemological movement that uses
techniques of Bayesian inference as a means of justifying the rules of
inductive logic.Bayesian Inference"

"Decision theory in economics, psychology, philosophy, mathematics,
and statistics is concerned with identifying the values, uncertainties
and other issues relevant in a given decision, its rationality, and the
resulting optimal decision. It is closely related to the field of game
theory as to interactions of agents with at least partially conflicting
interests whose decisions affect each other.Decision Theory -"

"In economics, the social science that studies the production,
distribution, and consumption of goods and services, emotions are
analyzed in some sub-fields of microeconomics, in order to assess the
role of emotions on purchase decision-making and risk perception Disciplinary approaches -"

"Broadly speaking, there are two views on Bayesian probability that
interpret the 'probability' concept in different ways. For objectivists,
probability objectively measures the plausibility of propositions, i.e.
the probability of a proposition corresponds to a reasonable belief
everyone (even a "robot") sharing the same knowledge should share in
accordance with the rules of Bayesian statistics, which can be justified
by requirements of rationality and consistency.[2][5] Requirements of
rationality and consistency are also important for subjectivists, for
which the probability corresponds to a 'personal belief'.[6] For
subjectivists however, rationality and consistency constrain the
probabilities a subject may have, but allow for substantial variation
within those constraints. The objective and subjective variants of
Bayesian probability differ mainly in their interpretation and
construction of the prior probability.Objective and subjective Bayesian probabilities -"

***

"Contemporary
analytic philosophers of mind generally use the term “belief” to refer
to the attitude we have, roughly, whenever we take something to be the
case or regard it as true. To believe something, in this sense, needn't
involve actively reflecting on it: Of the vast number of things ordinary
adults believe, only a few can be at the fore of the mind at any single
time. Nor does the term “belief”, in standard philosophical usage,
imply any uncertainty or any extended reflection about the matter in
question (as it sometimes does in ordinary English usage). Many of the
things we believe, in the relevant sense, are quite mundane: that we
have heads, that it's the 21st century, that a coffee mug is on the
desk. Forming beliefs is thus one of the most basic and important
features of the mind, and the concept of belief plays a crucial role in
both philosophy of mind and epistemology.Belief -"

Forming beliefs is thus one of the most basic and important features
of the mind, and the concept of belief plays a crucial role in both
philosophy of mind and epistemology. The “mind-body problem”, for
example, so central to philosophy of mind, is in part the question of
whether and how a purely physical organism can have beliefs. Much of
epistemology revolves around questions about when and how our beliefs
are justified or qualify as knowledge. Belief -

Nevertheless, many contemporary philosophers of science and analytic
philosophers are strongly critical of Popper's philosophy of
science.[14] Popper's mistrust of inductive reasoning has led to claims
that he misrepresents scientific practice. Among the professional
philosophers of science, the Popperian view has never been seriously
preferred to probabilistic induction, which is the mainstream account of
scientific reasoning.Falsifiability -

Sunday, March 10, 2013

I do not wish for you to embrace the Mythos of the times. All be it, that I would like you to consider any conversion process, as to lets say it as if you would Sonify, or, to Colour the world with your emotions.

This is so as to see the space with which each shares, as we choose to deal with our own Conscience. It was just a way of me trying to make sense of it all. It will need never mean anything to you if you cannot see it's abstractness as some "painted image of a universe."

That is to say, underlay the image of its stars, as points distance from, in equilibrium with a distance, for which we could hold as ourselves as stationary. To reflect then, on our memories. Not to be pulled away by. But wanting to try and make best use of. It can be the path of least resistance if one would like to call it that, and to show, a photons travel and influence betrayed by things lesser then the spirit with which Einstein slides. It could appear as Lensing if you wish.

The seat of the deceased's soul, his heart, was weighed on a balance against
the feather of Ma'at.

Your conscience, is your truth, and for you to have no conscience means you have no need for truth?

I do not ask you to make decisions irrationally, or belied with the darkest colours of your most haggard world. For it necessary to be measured in the time constraints of your perception as, held in the darkest moments of your day. How much happier in spirit, is the thought of time passing when you are truly happy. Pain reflected in a hand on a hot stove, that goes on for to long.

Forewarned to highlight and reflect in thought so as to say,

According to Łobaczewski, all societies vacillate between "happy
times," or times of prosperity, during which advanced psychological
knowledge of psycho-pathological influence in the corridors of power is
suppressed, and "unhappy times." During unhappy times, the
intelligentsia and society at large can recover this specialized
knowledge to resolve the social order along mentally healthier lines. It
is to be noted that happy times do not imply morally advanced times, as
Łobaczewski makes clear that this happiness or prosperity may well be
premised on the oppression of a target group.

Without conscience, or, without that truth, what value the emotional construct of memory induced that we can say we are without the memory of yesterday forever? That you would not reconsider, so as to say something about tomorrow. To be happy about the progress you have made. You see, you have to have conscience in order to have truth, and truth, in order to progress.

While I had presented the Vulcan fictional society we all know about in terms of it's fictional settings as a culture, I just wanted to ask the question in the title post above. It raises the idea that such desires could have asked us to eliminate this part of our inherent makeup, is to ask us how we may succeed. We need to know somehow of our move to reason and logic alone.

The earliest roots of emotional intelligence can be traced to Charles Darwin's work on the importance of emotional expression for survival and, second, adaptation.[2] In the 1900s, even though traditional definitions of intelligence
emphasized cognitive aspects such as memory and problem-solving,
several influential researchers in the intelligence field of study had
begun to recognize the importance of the non-cognitive aspects. For
instance, as early as 1920, E.L. Thorndike used the term social intelligence to describe the skill of understanding and managing other people.[3]

Is it possible to overcome the genetic makeup of our being to say that if we let the mind lead us in our reality observance, that it would require a dominance of genetic makeup to let evolution move to this outcome?

I have seen myself as using this medium of this blog expression to see that forefront in my mind is a subject that is leading, that I'd have to wonder that maybe the result of genetic engineering of my own mind leads the way. Hold on a second.

Not to say it is who I am without empathetic value, is to suggest the development of psychopathy is as a result, a good society. But better to point out, and to understand how one cannot escape from what it is as already have predominant in our own make up to say....we should do away with emotion. In my view, not to think how fast we can react in any given situation without a decision being made emotionally unburdened.

The data revealed that even the most complex, abstract emotions—those
that require maturity, reflection, and world knowledge to appreciate—do
involve our most advanced brain networks. However, they seem to get
their punch—their motivational push—from activating basic biological
regulatory structures in the most primitive parts of the brain, those
responsible for monitoring functions like heart rate and breathing. In
turn, the basic bodily changes induced during even the most complex
emotions—e.g., our racing heart or clenched gut—are "felt" by sensory
brain networks. When we talk of having a gut feeling that some action is
right or wrong, we are not just speaking metaphorically.

So this disconnect with emotion is on my mind. It is indeed true that I have labored to a degree to develop a philosophical understanding that demonstrates what it is, is hidden in our own desires, can be made for the good, and to allow ourselves to understand our choices do have consequences. That we can in some perspective trial, examine our choices under such a paradigm to ask, is this function a god send to do away with the understanding of the restrictions that can apply to us?

Łobaczewski adopted the term from the branch of theology dealing with the study of evil, derived from the Greek word poneros.
According to Łobaczewski, all societies vacillate between "happy
times," or times of prosperity, during which advanced psychological
knowledge of psychopathological influence in the corridors of power is
suppressed, and "unhappy times." During unhappy times, the
intelligentsia and society at large can recover this specialized
knowledge to resolve the social order along mentally healthier lines. It
is to be noted that happy times do not imply morally advanced times, as
Łobaczewski makes clear that this happiness or prosperity may well be
premised on the oppression of a target group.

Łobaczewski defines many specific characteropathies, which Western
psychology would likely refer to as character disorders, as paving the
way for the ultimate rule of "essential psychopaths" in full-fledged pathocracy.
This allegedly takes place when society is insufficiently guarded
against the minority of such abnormal pathology ever-present in its
midst (Łobaczewski asserts that the etiology is almost entirely
bio-genetic.) He believes that they infiltrate an institution or state,
prevailing moral values are perverted into their opposite, and a coded
language not unlike Orwell'sdoublethink circulates into the mainstream, using paralogic and paramoralism in place of genuine logic and morality.

There are various identifiable stages of pathocracy described by
Łobaczewski. Ultimately, each pathocracy is foredoomed because the root
of healthy social morality, according to Łobaczewski, is contained in
the congenital instinctive infrastructure in the vast majority of the
population. While some in the normal population are more susceptible to
pathocratic influence, and become its lackeys, the majority
instinctively resist.

Monday, August 06, 2012

This post has been due in that one can learn so many things about ones perspective having been engaged with the realities. So it was with me that I was at a loss of how to deal with, that my sweet wife gave me a book to read. It has been a source of comfort in that you get to understand the process that your own wife may be going through.

Men most certainly can come in all sizes that you quickly see how the differences between men and women shows itself as one reads. Men, did you know you can get it too? Ultimately, it is about listening to your wife.

Marc Silver on Marc Silver:I'm the author of BREAST CANCER HUSBAND: How
to Help Your Wife (And Yourself) Through Diagnosis, Treatment, and
Beyond, and a great believer in the motto of the breast cancer husband:
"Shut up and listen." Really, it works for just about
any husband.

When Marsha was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, I wished I
had a book to guide me through the difficult months ahead, because
I had no clue what to do. In the spring of 2002, after Marsha finished
her treatments, I began working on the proposal for BREAST
CANCER HUSBAND. Even though many publishers told me that
"men don't buy self-help books," I was sure this was one
book that guys would buy–and if they didn't, their wives would
buy it for them.

This book has been a constant reference guide for me.When at a loss of focus it helped bring the focus back.

In hind sight when talking with my wife we came to some conclusions about the process itself in that when ever she had to make a decision it should have been from having all the information available. By having it at her finger tips further decisions could have been made better. So an additional resource that helped was something your surgeon may make inclusive in your package for what decisions you make about the choices given.

Intelligent Patient Guide to Breast Cancer5th edition, 2011.

by
Ivo Olivotto, Karen Gelmon, David McCready and Urve Kuusk. This book
is available free of charge in the kit. It can also be borrowed from
the BC Cancer Agency Library or can be purchased at your local bookstore.

This is very important information and a woman can be inundated with a lot considering her feelings and bombardment of what she has to face. Here I put of importance the help of your Cancer Coordinator as to the help in clarifications as vital. Even as I sit trying to scoop as much info as I can, being impacted emotional as well one tends to miss questions as my wife did or just could not process.

We have reflected on this as wondering if we could have taped or recorded the conversation so as to get the full scope of the process your surgeon may reveal to you. So we saw this as a possible avenue you might want to take so you can go back an see exactly what was said. This might be useful.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

It is true without lying, certain and most true. That which is Below
is like that which is Above and that which is Above is like that which
is Below to do the miracles of the Only Thing. And as all things have
been and arose from One by the mediation of One, so all things have
their birth from this One Thing by adaptation. The Sun is its father;
the Moon its mother; the Wind hath carried it in its belly; the Earth is
its nurse. The father of all perfection in the whole world is here. Its
force or power is entire if it be converted into Earth. Separate the
Earth from the Fire, the subtle from the gross, sweetly with great
industry. It ascends from the Earth to the Heavens and again it descends
to the Earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior. By
this means you shall have the glory of the whole world and thereby all
obscurity shall fly from you. Its force is above all force, for it
vanquishes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing. So was
the world created. From this are and do come admirable adaptations,
whereof the process is here in this. Hence am I called Hermes
Trismegistus, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole
world. That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is
accomplished and ended.

Don't you think it odd that given the times that while contribution from
Sir Isaac Newton lead the way in terms of Optics and Gravitation that
one could have been so mislead as to the study of an ancient enterprise.

The
Alchemists attempted to perfect the One Thing of Hermes, what they
called the First Matter, by using specific physical, psychological, and
spiritual techniques that they describe in chemical terms and
demonstrated in laboratory experiements. However, while the alchemists
spoke in terms of chemcials, furaces , flasks, and beakers, they were
really talking about the changes taking place within their own bodies,
minds, and souls.2The Emerald Tablet, Dennis William Hauck, Chapter 10, Page 151

It is not to far a leap to see that intelligence could have been made up of other attributes that we might say Emotional Intelligence
is worth a look. How would this compare to Silica Garden Illustrating Mineral "Vegetation" but to see it as growth in one form but
analogically attributed to one owns neurological process inside? While
this is matter constitution raised it has very fluid attributes to a
intelligence system?

As a man I cannot say I can have ever overcome my emotions but I can be
more aware of what is going on inside. How my views of the world can be
circumspect, from a much higher realization.

How much more important my emotions play then in staying to the high
road of decency and respect. How my emotions may be elevated to be
inspired by others. How childish I can become by loosing my awareness of
my responses.

The language of Alchemy is learning to see as if you are a POlymath
about your life. It does not mean you do not suffer the emotional
turmoils just that you realize it is okay to feel. To feel deeply.

What matter based realization can exist as we conjure up the mind to the
responses we have experienced that we do not see the mixtures of the
elements that go on inside? Shall all our responses be matter based in
distinction, based on the lower realization of what can arise in human
beings? The baser emotions of an ancient human being primal in nature
while evolution shall see the rise of the machine?

So by definition and understanding of the Ruminations how is it a defeated man could have excelled so boldly as to have found "no hero" in front of him? No hero, but his determination to be but "goal oriented." Not to have been overcome by this negative state, so as to loose his self in his understanding of life and his quest to be better?

People have had it wrong for a long time now, and hopefully this sheds a new light on one of our forefathers who gave us more then his science to consider. He was still a scientist in face of the problems he may of encountered psychologically. He entered the cave and saw the shadows, but he knew there was so much more to his confinement of perspective that pushed himself to excel.

Rumination is usually defined as repetitively focusing on the symptoms of distress, and on its possible causes and consequences.[1].
Extensive research on the effects of rumination, or the tendency to
self-reflect, shows that the negative form of rumination interferes with
people’s abilities to focus on problem-solving and results in dwelling
on negative thoughts about past failures.[2]
Evidence from previous studies suggest that the negative implications
of rumination are due to cognitive biases, such as memory and
attentional biases, which predispose ruminators to selectively devote
attention to negative stimuli [3]
However, three forms of rumination were proposed by Mikulincer (1996):
state rumination, action rumination, and task-irrelevant rumination.
State Rumination involves dwelling on the consequences and feelings
associated with the failure. Action rumination consists of task-oriented
thought processes focused on goal-achievement and correction of
mistakes. Task-irrelevant rumination utilizes events or people
unassociated with the blocked goal to distract a person from the
failure.[4]

It is of great consequence that we can see the reasons why being in such a negative world does more harm by our engaging what may have been the realities of those who have seen and experienced a Hell on Earth. Soldiers who return home, Peace Officers who have no way to deal with the tragedies, or Fireman who saw the outcome of death by Fire?

What about you as an individual? How great the wall that can be set up that the view cannot let us see what is on the other side? It is of consequence that each of us will experience these things. The question is will you accept that the emotions do exist within you that they have to be made aware of. That we cannot gloss over what is real inside to have have it accumulate?

So maybe in those times of Sir Isaac Newton they did not have psychology people to help you surmise the matter states of our convictions and realization as stepping off points to the future?

The Flammarion woodcut. Flammarion's caption translates to "A medieval
missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth
meet..."
"We all are of the citizens of the Sky" Camille Flammarion

On the question of our societies then what value can be seen when it is not seen as part of the individual developmental graces in conjuring up the humanistic values of our decency and respect of others?

"Plato made clear that merit and not heredity defined the gold man and that gold could be found in all parts of society."

Plato
prove that justice does not depend upon a chance, convention or upon
external force. It is the right condition of the human soul by the very
nature of man when seen in the fullness of his environment. It is in
this way that Plato condemned the position taken by Glaucon that justice
is something which is external. According to Plato, it is internal
as it resides in the human soul. "It is now regarded as an inward grace
and its understanding is shown to involve a study of the inner man."
It is, therefore, natural and no artificial. It is therefore, not born
of fear of the weak but of the longing of the human soul to do a duty
according to its nature.

A
just society must be governed by men of reason.Inventing a new social
myth to replace the old. Socrates calls those who rule for the benefit
of the whole society and not to it's detriment golden men: in his myth
they rightfully govern the men of silver and bronze.
This is the myth of metals(415a ff.) the centrepiece of a second
accusation that has dogged Plato through the centuries. Plato made clear
that merit and not heredity defined the gold man and that gold could be
found in all parts of society. Nonetheless, Plato has never escaped the
charge that he imposes upon society an elitist and authoritarian rule.
The charge is pressed even though in Book IV Plato makes justice in the
individual the condition of justice in society.--Pg 16, Para 2 and 3, of
Plato the Republic Introduction by Richard W. Sterling and William C.
Scott.

“
Man is the most composite of all creatures.... Well, as in the old
burning of the Temple at Corinth, by the melting and intermixture of
silver and gold and other metals a new compound more precious than any,
called Corinthian brass, was formed; so in this continent,--asylum of
all nations,--the energy of Irish, Germans, Swedes, Poles, and Cossacks,
and all the European tribes,--of the Africans, and of the
Polynesians,--will construct a new race, a new religion, a new state, a
new literature, which will be as vigorous as the new Europe which came
out of the smelting-pot of the Dark Ages, or that which earlier emerged
from the Pelasgic and Etruscan barbarism.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson,
describing American Culture as a melting pot in a journal entry, 1845

Undoubtedly
we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable . We must trust the
perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity
the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can
satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic
to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he
apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms
and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great
apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what
end is nature? See: Nature by Emerson

In response to the trivial statements of what you might have heard and
repeat without looking.Here's some support for the limited view you may
share of the subject that carry's some weight. Of course even given the
perspective of a scientist he did not have a full understanding of the
subject?

Isaac Newton was my childhood hero. Along with Albert Einstein, he
one of the greatest scientists ever, but Newton was no saint. He used
his position to defame his competitors and rarely credited his
colleagues.His arguments were sometimes false and contrived, his data
were often fudged, and he exaggerated the accuracy of his calculations.
Furthermore, his many religious works (mostly unpublished) were
nonsensical or mystical, revealing him to be a creationist at heart. My
talk offers a sampling of Newton’s many transgressions, social,
scientific and religious.

The new book I am reading Gravity by Brian Clegg currently sheds more light on Newton youth and the life he lead.

The data revealed that even the most complex, abstract emotions—those
that require maturity, reflection, and world knowledge to appreciate—do
involve our most advanced brain networks. However, they seem to get
their punch—their motivational push—from activating basic biological
regulatory structures in the most primitive parts of the brain, those
responsible for monitoring functions like heart rate and breathing. In
turn, the basic bodily changes induced during even the most complex
emotions—e.g., our racing heart or clenched gut—are "felt" by sensory
brain networks. When we talk of having a gut feeling that some action is
right or wrong, we are not just speaking metaphorically.

So, I'm saying the mirror neuron system underlies the interface allowing you to rethink about issues like consciousness,representation of self,what separates you from other human beings,what allows you to empathize with other human beings,and also even things like the emergence of culture and civilization,which is unique to human beings. See: VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization

How important is the environment in that we might see the development of the conditions of "specific types of neurons" when the color can dictate the type of neuron developed? Can we say that the color(emotion) is an emotive state that we might indeed create in the type of consciousness with which we meet the world. A consciousness that that sets the trains of thought given the reality of our own perceptions. Or, perpetuated thought processes unravelled in a world of our own illusions?

In
a nutshell, what Karim showed was that each time a memory is used, it
has to be restored as a new memory in order to be accessible later. The
old memory is either not there or is inaccessible. In short, your memory
about something is only as good as your last memory about it. Joseph
LeDoux

Karim Nader: There are a lot of implications. All
psychopathological disorders, such as PTSD, epilepsy, obsessive
compulsive disorders, or addiction—all these things have to do with your
brain getting rewired in a way that is malfunctioning. Theoretically,
we may be able to treat a lot of these psychopathologies. If you could
block the re-storage of the circuit that causes the obsessive
compulsion, then you might be able to reset a person to a level where
they aren’t so obsessive. Or perhaps you can reset the circuit that has
undergone epilepsy repeatedly so that you can increase the threshold for
seizures. And there is some killer data showing that it’s possible to
block the reconsolidation of drug cravings.

The other reason why I think it is so striking is that it is so
contrary to what has been the accepted view of memory for so long in the
mainstream. My research caused everybody in the field to stop, turn
around and go, “Whoa, where’d that come from?” Nobody’s really working
on this issue, and the only reason I came up with this is because I
wasn’t trained in memory. [Nader was originally researching fear.] It
really caused a fundamental reconceptualization of a very basic and
dogmatic field in neuroscience, which is very exciting. It is the first
time in 100 years that people are starting to come up with new models of
memory at the physiological level.

Part of the understanding for me is that in creating this environment for neural development the retention of memory has to have some emotive basis which arises from the ancient part of our brain in that it is associated with the heart response.

Here’s
an analogy to understand this: imagine that our universe is a
two-dimensional pool table, which you look down on from the third
spatial dimension. When the billiard balls collide on the table, they
scatter into new trajectories across the surface. But we also hear the
click of sound as they impact: that’s collision energy being radiated
into a third dimension above and beyond the surface. In this picture,
the billiard balls are like protons and neutrons, and the sound wave
behaves like the graviton. See:The Sound Of Billiard Balls

While these physiological processes are going on in our bodies the chemical responses of emotion trigger manifestations in the world outside of our bodies. Let us say consciousness exists "at the periphery of our bodies." What measure then to assess the realization that such manifestations internally are in the control of our manipulations of living experience? Are we then not caught in the throes of and are we not machine like to think such associations could have ever been produced in a robot like being manufactured?

Of course this is a fictional representation above of what may resound within and according to the experiences we may have?
The question is then how are memories retained? How do memories transmit through out our endocrinology system the nature of our experiences so that we see consciousness as a form of the expression through which we color our world?

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

RBM:On Castaneda There are some people here who think that Castaneda's work maps quite well to [it]. Specifically, the nagual and NPMR are conceptual perfect matches, along with the tonal and PMR. Tom has used the metaphor of the warrior several times in these groups in a way that matched Castaneda's

I think a lot of us within a given generation would have been moved by this anthropological discourse on the shamanic knowledge that we can gain from such cultures.

I
have told you that to choose a path you must be free from fear and
ambition. The desire to learn is not ambition. It is our lot as men to
want to know.

The path without a heart will turn against men and destroy them. It
does not take much to die, and to seek death is to seek nothing.

The artistic endeavour chosen to transmit knowledge and wisdom was a success in that we could take from it and find comparative points of view that could be shared in our own daily lives.

It was this way for me in that the Tonal was significant formulation of a methodology toward transforming our emotive internal states to something that not only existed within but as a result existed outwardly as well. Helped to induce that connection.

True creativity often starts where language ends-Arthur Koestler

I mean you've exhausted all avenues to a certain problem? You have all this data and you can't just seem to get past the problem or how to move on.

Consciousness emerges when this primordial story-the story of a object causally changing the state of the body-can be told using the universal nonverbal vocabulary of body signals. The aparent self emerges as the feeling of a feeling. When the story is first told, sponataneously, without it ever being requested, and furthermore after that hwhen the story is repeated, knowledge about hwat the organism is living through automatically emerges as the answer to a question never asked. From that moment on, we begin to know.Pg 31, The Feeling of What Happens, by Antonio Damasio

Receptivity, as to gaining access to information, was as I had seen made a success by entrancing calmness(sitting by a river possibly....what brain state is most conducive in waves?) as an ideal to knowing that a solution can come. Secondly, knowing that you were connected to something much vaster then your own brain/consciousness?

How would this be possible? It is as if you ask the question to make way for a possible answer you see?
For myself then it was about understanding how a connection could be made to the the heart, as to being open, and moving this idea from matters states( all our work and conclusions) to energy that was capable and transforming in the mind/consciousness.

Involution and Evolution

A "color of gravity" emotively held within the context of mind as a emotive force expressed through our endocrinology system. Retention of memories. Our pasts.

While heavily connected to these emotions in memory states how could we transform our thinking mind but to recognized what we had retained and what we retain with it?

This was a informativeness process then of what was framed within the physical structure of our being/brain and the recognition of these matters states as conclusive and solidified ideals as to what would be contained in our attitudes and consequences in life??

Friday, January 22, 2010

We regard quantum mechanics as a complete theory for which the fundamental physical and mathematical hypotheses are no longer susceptible of modification.

--Heisenberg and Max Born, paper delivered to Solvay Congress of 1927

You know I have watched the long drawn out conversation on Backreaction about what was once already debated, to have advanced to current status in the world represented as a logic orientated process with regard to entanglement.

What are it's current status in terms of its expression experimentally to know what it is we are doing with something that had been debated long ago?

Solvay Physics Conference 1927 02:55 - 2 years ago

The most known people who participated in the conference were Ervin Schrodinger, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Auguste Piccard, Paul Dirac, Max Born, Wolfgang Pauli, Louis de Broglie, Marie Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein and others. The film opens with quick shots of Erwin Schrodinger and Niels Bohr. Auguste Piccard of the University of Brussels follows and then the camera re-focuses on Schrodinger and Bohr. Schrodinger who developed wave mechanics never agreed with Bohr on quantum mechanics. Solvay gave Heisenberg an opportunity to discuss his new uncertainty principle theory. Max Born's statistical interpretation of the wave function ended determinism in atomic world. These men - Bohr, Heisenberg, Kramers, Dirac and Born together with Born represent the founding fathers of quantum mechanics. Louis de Broglie wrote his dissertation on the wave nature of matter which Schrodinger used as basis for wave mechanics. Albert Einstein whose famous response to Born's statistical interpretation of wave function was "God does not play dice." Twenty-nine physicists, the main quantum theorists of the day, came together to discuss the topic "Electrons and Photons". Seventeen of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners. Following is a "home movie" shot by Irving Langmuir, (the 1932 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry). It captures 2 minutes of an intermission in the proceedings. Twenty-one of the 29 attendees are on the film. --- It's Never too Late to Study: http://www.freesciencelectures.com/ --- Notice: This video is copyright by its respectful owners. The website address on the video does not mean anything. ---

In the May 15, 1935 issue of Physical Review Albert Einstein co-authored a paper with his two postdoctoral research associates at the Institute for Advanced Study, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen. The article was entitled “Can Quantum Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?” (Einstein et al. 1935). Generally referred to as “EPR”, this paper quickly became a centerpiece in the debate over the interpretation of the quantum theory, a debate that continues today. The paper features a striking case where two quantum systems interact in such a way as to link both their spatial coordinates in a certain direction and also their linear momenta (in the same direction). As a result of this “entanglement”, determining either position or momentum for one system would fix (respectively) the position or the momentum of the other. EPR use this case to argue that one cannot maintain both an intuitive condition of local action and the completeness of the quantum description by means of the wave function. This entry describes the argument of that 1935 paper, considers several different versions and reactions, and explores the ongoing significance of the issues they raise.

Might I confuse you then to see that their is nothing mystical about what our emotive states implore, that we might not also consider the purpose of Venn Logic, or, a correlation to Fuzzy logic to prepare the way for how we can become emotive entangled in our psychology, are ways "biologically mixed with our multilevel perspective" about how photons interact, to see that such a color of debate could have amounted to a distinction that arises from within. Which can manifest itself on a real world stage that is psychological forced out of the confines of human emotion, to be presented as a real world force "bridle or unbridled" with regard to the human condition?

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Foursquare-adj1. Having four equal sides and four right angles; square. 2. Marked by firm, unwavering conviction or expression; forthright: a foursquare refusal to yield.

I thought to define the nature of foursquare by definition. It was not very easy to find such a definition as to what was thought in my mind a relation to the ancient notion I have of earth. Definitively expressed, and coordinated into a frame.

To see such a relation to the operation of the "endocrinology of the human body" in such a form would be to steer the modern day notion of such a framework, to deal with what Antonio Dammasio might have call a "powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind."1." A stepping onto the stage under the light, or "being born" into the world.

Such use of nature would not be unseen in this relation to think "the leaf" has this quality about it in relation to the sun, or the bee, can have such an affect on those around them by such releases of the hormone.

15th Century Manuscript by Bartholomeus Anglicus, on the Property of Things

The work was written for the use of students and the general public, in Latin in 19 books at the school of Magdeburg in Saxonia[4]. A number of copies exist both in manuscript and in printed form. Bartholomew carefully notes the sources for the material included, although, at present, it is sometimes impossible to identify or locate some of them. His annotations give a good idea of the wide variety of works available to a medieval scholar.

The subjects of the books, in order, are God, angels (including demons), the human mind or soul, physiology, of ages (family and domestic life), medicine, the universe and celestial bodies, time, form and matter (elements), air and its forms, water and its forms, earth and its forms including geography, gems, minerals and metals, animals, and color, odor, taste and liquids.

While I cannot say I have ever read these manuscripts, it was insightful that one could see the preceding idea here about "all knowledge" that one might contain in book form to explain the nature of reality as it was known at that time, became the forerunner of Encyclopedia as we know it today.

Some of the ideas I have about this come from my many journeys into books I have read over the years. Some of us are indeed nostalgic about what we can hold in our hands versus the newer technologies that have supplanted the book. How it connects us to it's subject and it's author.

Change, is hard thing to overcome when it comes to adapting to new technology and how we have always done things. But as the "ole dinosaurs of comfort" and the less likely to adapt to new circumstance, the challenge is then to see how the world in Wikipedia and the Librarian sought to reference information that we assume now quite easily, as we reference by linking, and using the source as information.

It is strange as well that while setting the framework for presenting these ideas I have develop and encountered, helped to set my mind on how I see the world. How it is "shaped" by "very simple identifications" to such objects that I have assigned a reality, according to that schematic embedded as a geometry mind mapped and expressed.

It is so diverse the subject of the human being that to identify all the abilities of the human being in such an expression is beyond the scope and intention of this entry, that regardless, I thought to reveal what it is in the most "innate of us" as we express ourselves in our daily encounters.

Mind Matters

This is a definitive expression then of all the likely avenues one might take and this leads one to think a certain way and this in itself forms the basis of exchange with the world around us and the people we are involved in. Our empathetic relation based on formative ideas about our experiences and the emotive content that has been injected into the matter defined world as a set process for the mind and it's ultimate realization of what consciousness plays, as we set firm this relation.

You can be from another country and philosophy as being instrumental in this explanation, by be explicative of the way you lived, and the way the world was experienced around you. Thus to such an experience may be set to mind that such formation of these matters might be define in by the weight with which we assign density in the form of elemental relation in thought and how firm this definition is in relation to such mind matters.

So with such inclination to the possibility of what consciousness can become what value then to see that such mater defined in mind might play an importance in the way we see the world and the way the world responds, to such a "spirit of kind" that it be "more gross in it's manifestation" and held to the evolutionary aspects of the body formed, that it could ever be more then what we might think it really is?

Shall we have no hope then that the spirit is of kind in consciousness nothing more then the animal , that one sought to express the spirit more in conscious, then that we thought so gross? That such an ability in consciousness can ever see such changes that the earth formed can not have it's finer elements to say, that the world is defined by the nature of these elementals, and nothing more?

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

It is obvious that there is little regard for anything that I have to say in regard to the emotive consequences of developing the EQ instead of the IQ?:) My theoretical idea about colour of gravity, as a measure of the qualities the emotive content, as we move beyond the body home.

Emotional Intelligence (EI), often measured as an Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQ), describes an ability, capacity, skill or (in the case of the trait EI model) a self-perceived ability, to identify, assess, and manage the emotions of one's self, of others, and of groups. It is a relatively new area of psychological research. The definition of EI is constantly changing.

This calls to mind the many books that I have read over time, and many philosophies that I had adventured into, too digest some of the principals being expounded. While it is always interesting to read many of their ideas that other people have, it is also the quest in attaining some clarity about oneself and the mechanisms( this makes it sound machine like) yet I do agree to the chemical illustration of the synapse in a thinking brain. What can be injected into that space, that they retain emotive consequences in their memories.

Psychological mindedness

Psychological Mindedness (PM) is a concept which refers to an individual's capacity for self-examination, self-observation, introspection and personal insight.[citation needed] It also includes an ability to recognize and see the links between current problems within self and with others, and the ability to insight one's past particularly for its impact on present attitudes and functioning. Psychologically minded people have average and above average intelligence and generally have some insight into their problems even before they enter therapy. Psychological mindedness is distinct from intellectualizations and obsessional rumination about one's inner problems. The latter is of no help in psychotherapy, but it is a sign of resistance.

One might like to think about the computer technologies, and somehow inject "this mechanism" as a fundamental part of the evolution of the human being, yet, it is only an expression of what one might like to attain in the most perfect technocracy world, that we humans are all that, and nothing more?

So who are we? We are the life force power of the universe, with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds. And we have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. Right here right now, I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere where we are -- I am -- the life force power of the universe, and the life force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form. At one with all that is. Or I can choose to step into the consciousness of my left hemisphere. where I become a single individual, a solid, separate from the flow, separate from you. I am Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, intellectual, neuroanatomist. These are the "we" inside of me.

Which would you choose? Which do you choose? And when? I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be. And I thought that was an idea worth spreading.

I found it very degrading that someone would pick apart something I choose of Jill Bolte Taylors selection of writing. I have reprinted it and realized it to be reconquered, what is being said, that the body and mind under such conditions bring the mind to recognize itself as "apart from the body home." "This body" affords the life of that person. It does appear ancient.

I ask you for a minute to consider this. What perception would the individual be speaking from, for it to make such an assessment of the person's own hand, as a claw?

The navel is naturally placed in the centre of the human body, and, if in a man lying with his face upward, and his hands and feet extended, from his navel as the centre, a circle be described, it will touch his fingers and toes. It is not alone by a circle, that the human body is thus circumscribed, as may be seen by placing it within a square. For measuring from the feet to the crown of the head, and then across the arms fully extended, we find the latter measure equal to the former; so that lines at right angles to each other, enclosing the figure, will form a square.

De Architectura, VitruviusFirst Milanese period 1481/2 - 1499

The first printed edition of the De Architectura (On Architecture) by the ancient Roman architect, Vitruvius, appears.

It is never easy sometimes to know what direction to go with these blog posts. What is being shown on the "screen of my mind" is a painting of Leonardo, and along with this idea about Coxeter's insight into what the geometer is really doing when he discovers aspects of what exists before it's manifestation in reality. As if, it is not enough to know what the Higg's is doing as it crosses the room in analogy with the great Professor Einstein.

Science takes us back to the very beginnings of the universe and how it is we know that such phases and transformational changes can be described, and behind it all, there is not some existing geometrical nature to the forms that manifest?

So from an historical perspective, the image set the pace for what discoveries become part of the blog entry. Who is to know what direction this may take me as I scour the internet and find the following.

According to Leonardo, the musician composes harmony by the simultaneous conjunction of its “proportional parts”. The painter “grades the things before the eye as music grades the sounds that meet the ear”. On Ms. L. Fol 79v. Leonardo investigates sound and tries to establish strict mathematical proportions between the loudness of a sound at its origin and its range, the point in space up to which it can be heard. This “pyramidal law” was seen as a universal law of proportion that could be applied to other natural phenomena such as light, perspective and even mechanics.

Leonardo’s pyramidal law of proportional diminution did not always lead to fruitful conclusions. In the absence of knowledge of advanced mechanics, he attempted to apply it to the investigation of gravity, noting that every falling object acquires increments of impetus. He was obviously unaware of the Merton “mean speed theorem” which states that a body traveling at constant velocity will cover the same distance in the same time as an accelerated body if its velocity is half the final speed of the accelerated body.

Undeterred, Leonardo investigated the actions of levers, pulleys and balances at length according to medieval proportional laws, illustrating endless demonstrations of harmonic equilibrium. While most of the results had no practical purpose, Leonardo seems to have taken delight in demonstrating the certainty of proportional law for its own sake. Perhaps it confirmed his view of the inter-connectedness of all things in nature, which he so often disproved in the course of testing theory with experiment.

As you know I am using a comparative view of emotions which are much more subtle then the matter to which we assign our body. Earth is square. Plato points to heaven for a reason, and all things descend according to those things we assign emotive value which return to the matters defined. Alas, the human experience is emotive determined and our lives set in the direction we send it. All matters of due course, are heralded from a much finer level of thought.

As many of you know I am not the great scientist that so many I follow are. Who have spent their times in the higher halls of learning. It is no less important to me that I work to the same vein of truth that they do in their pursuances for understanding and implementation of science under it's laws.

So too I work an area that would have been the decline of our scientist's credibility. The scientists who have suffered under the scorn of their own colleagues because of this divergence from what is known and understood. I do not have to worry, because I already work the lower echelon of the thoughts and feeling about those scorned. My immaturity perhaps and wonderment as to what purpose this lone blogger attempts, and I could be past off as some kook. I persevere, as we all do to understand life, reality and it's truths.